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We're off to the forest....
Cute spots!	Who is this forest creature?
We touched moss. It felt like green carpet. Moss is the smallest plant in the forest. Do you know what the largest plant is in the forest?
	This is a red-tailed hawk. This is a common hawk in Nebraska. It was injured when it fell out of its nest as a baby. It cannot fly because its wing was injured. It eats 6 mice every day!
This is a Barred Owl. It only has one wing so it has to live in captivity. It cannot fly. We learned that it eats 3 mice every day. Yuck!
	Here is the rabbit that we met at the forest. She has fur, is a mammal, and is warm-blooded like us. We got to touch her soft warm fur and thought her wiggly nose was funny. She must have thought we smelled good. We also noticed that rabbits have really long ears to help them hear in the forest and eyes on the sides of their face to see all around them.
This is the tiger salamander that we saw. He is an amphibian so they had to keep spraying him with water. If he doesn't stay wet, he'll die. His skin was smooth and slimy. He is also cold-blooded and hibernates in the winter.
	We had to get our fingers wet to pet this little creature.
This is the box turtle that we saw. She loves sand and digging. Her shell felt hard and bumpy. She likes to eat lettuce, strawberries, and worms. She hibernates in the winter. The red around the eyes mean that it's a girl. Boy turtles have brown eyes.